I’m not exactly sure how much of a secret that was. Since 1980 and the ‘Reagan Era’ both Democrats and…
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Global Stock Markets Don’t Care What Happens on Planet Earth
During the worst possible combination of events worldwide, stock markets are at an all-time high. A pandemic with no control…
Great Britain and America Take Their Governments to Court
It’s New Year’s Eve. I am indulging myself in a whimsical set of circumstances, none of which actually occurred. But…
Wall Street Dictates Joe Biden’s Vice President
Clearly it won’t be Elizabeth Warren. She’s too bright, too much of a threat to the moneyed crowd and…
Stock Market Investors Are Such Precious Little Souls
The world is falling apart from end to end and yet there is hope in the face of a…
Wall Street Against Main Street—Are We Really Going to Do This Again?
Two things are going on at the moment in the economic chaos kickstarted by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. 1) …
Stock Market Selloff—Not Coronavirus, But the Manufacturing Complex
Coronavirus looks to me like a trigger rather than a cause. Why would that be? For one, a market…
Stock-Market Optimism
Breathtaking news, Wall Street investors are breathless with optimism. The world is going to hell in a breathlessly accelerated…
Just When You Thought the Sub-Prime Mortgage Was Dead
…it’s back, at least in England. An interesting and somewhat frightening article by Rupert Jones appeared in the Guardian today…
The Stock Markets—a Reality Show
A reality show is a genre of television programming that documents unscripted situations and actual occurrences, often featuring a previously…